OF ANNUALS 



and cut away all faded flowers. If this is done, 

 no seed will come to development, and the 

 strength of the plants will be expended in the 

 production of other flowers. By keeping up this 

 practice through the season, it is possible to keep 

 most of them blossoming until late in the sum- 

 mer, as they will endeavor to perpetuate them- 

 selves by the production of seed, and the first step 

 in this process is the production of flowers. 



What flowers would you advise us to grow? 

 many readers of this chapter will be sure to ask, 

 after having read what I have said above about 

 the garden of annuals. 



In answering this question here, it will be 

 necessary, in a measure, to repeat what has been, 

 or will be, said in other chapters, where various 

 phases of gardening are treated. But the ques- 

 tion is one that should be answered in this con- 

 nection, at the risk of repetition, in order to fully 

 cover the subject now under consideration. 



There are so many kinds of flowers ofl*ered 

 by the seedsmen that it is a diflicult matter to 

 decide between them, when all are so good. But 

 no one garden is large enough to contain them 

 all^ Were one to attempt the cultivation of all 

 he would be obliged to put in all his time at the 

 work, and the services of an assistant would be 

 needed, besides. Even then the chances are that 



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